Ironblade

Back and forth, perhaps not. But since I have thousands of merits blue-side and hardly any on red, I'm planning to load up one mule with stuff like LotG to deliver to my villains that need it.

People would still join an SG for functionality that the apartments don't provide. For example, it makes sense that a private apartment would have some storage, but not a teleportation system. The apartments should be designed as a very limited 'shadow' of bases.

Since we wouldn't want the ability to have an apartment to be restricted to those in an SG, the apartments would have to be completely separate from SG bases. Every character would have the option of having an apartment, regardless of SG membership.

Of course, then we need to come up with a way to pay for it. Using influence? If it uses prestige, you'd have to choose between your SG and your apartment. Perhaps have what you can buy be based on level?

The answer is quite simple.
MA is being constantly updated/changed because it's still new.
Badges are being constantly updated/added because a trained monkey could handle it.

PvP has not been largely ignored. Changes take a lot of a advance preparation and sometimes extensive changes to the code.

arbitraitors

Then I guess it's high time that you start such a discussion.
What other people choose to post about has no bearing on the matter. This is why each discussion is separated into a thread.

And what you're saying is that some accolades aren't based on getting other badges. So these examples you bring up now have absolutely nothing to do with your original question.

To continue with your atrocious example: you will never catch up with your older sibling and be the same age, will you?
Entirely fair.


In fact, it does not disadvantage anyone and actually encourages new customers.

See what I did there? I can write whatever I want and state that it is fact, just like you did.

(shrug)
There are a few places in New York City where you have to walk BLOCKS to get from one line to another. Still, I guess it meets the OP's criterion of being 'in the same building' since you can get there without going outside (via honking long tunnels).

hmm.... Never use small words when you can promulgate sesquipedalian verbiage, eh?


P.S. Firefox thinks sesquipedalian is an incorrect spelling. Ha ha! I love it when I know more words than a spelling checker.

You can't educate the kind of person who posted this comment:
"funny video by NCsoft, especially cause they them selfs HIRE people for little money from poor countries TO make farmbots and sell kinah, so the company gets an extra dime out of it. sellers? farmers? they must be NCsoft employee, orelse they would not allow the bots and sellers to stay alive that freaking long.
Want to say to us its nonsens? fine, make a weapon item free for everyone that can only kill bots and sellers instantly but otherwise would be a useless weapon."

Some people really are THAT stupid.

In my case, two reasons:

1) I don't want a 'chance'. I want the item I want.

2) In some cases, I want it at a particular level. This is why all of my toons blow all merits on random rolls when they are in the mid 30's and I have a blaster at 37 with XP turned off. But if I have to have a LotG at level 25, then I buy it.

Is it functional? Unquestionably, yes.
Working as intended? Can't answer that without knowing precisely what the devs DID intend and/or what they CURRENTLY intend (if it changed).

But I don't think either of those questions is particularly useful. I think the question should be whether the merit system has improved the game, or not. To that, my answer would be a qualified (very qualified) yes. Overall, I think we're better off with the merit system than without it, despite the negative impact it has had on the availability of sub-50 recipes on the market. I think a few changes could make my yes an unqualified one.

Ah, but you're slotting in such a way that you're gimping yourself by running up against ED. What if your slotting goal was to maintain the EXACT same amount of accuracy, end red and damage but add 60% recharge. Wouldn't that be beneficial?

Wrong. BOTH sets are there for the same reason - to defeat/help defeat enemies.

BTW, my ill/kin has SB.

Okay, so the problem is that you run into a lot of sucky defenders and it has affected your perception of defenders in general. How sad.

You can also get more Karma or Blessing of Zephyr - they're not uniques. You just need another defense power to put them in.

Whoa! Resist Physical Damage for sure. I typically take that 15 or 20 levels before the other two.

Well, it wasn't a waste, then, was it?

Okay.... either this is a new word I haven't heard of, or acting slutty is a play style, or you meant 'scranking'....

BORING!
In the old days, the tank could herd up most of the map. That has changed. Herding to a pre-arranged point is usually not the fastest way to get things done. Make no mistake, there are certainly situations where it is the best tactic, but MOST of the time, it's just boring for the rest of the team.


Keep in mind that debt is DRAMATICALLY less of a penalty than it used to be. In fact, on a character you don't play often, your Patrol XP can completely negate earning any debt even after a few deaths. Also, with Self Destruction, you don't get any debt for dying. Then there's Vengeance, self-rez powers - sometimes dying is a valid tactic.


It varies. On a pick-up group, it's a crap shoot.
If it's an SG team, or regularly scheduled team, or a picked team for a task force, that's a different story.


No one goes there any more. It's too crowded.

The second one. I don't know if there has ever been redname confirmation since we probably never asked. Anyone with enough experience (and who is paying attention) can see for themselves how it works.


I believe this to be correct. I've done the Eden trial a lot and I have only ever gotten an Ambrosia after landing a killing blow. Since we're talking about a binary result with a data collection in the high hundreds (if not over a thousand), I'm pretty confident about that conclusion.

Here, here's a thought. Everyone can post what they want, without you playing Forum Police.

Well, that's fine as a statement of policy. As a statement of 'fact', though, it is completely false.

I agree with the part about not telling people what to do. I'm just saying that someone playing their first 'whatever AT' doesn't know the character as well as someone who has played it many times before.